Charles McCombie

Charles McCombie is an independent strategic
and technical adviser to various national and international waste
management programs and executive director of the Association for
Regional and International Underground Storage, or Arius. For 20 years,
he was scientific and technical director of Nagra, the Swiss cooperative
for the disposal of radioactive waste. He has chaired the International
Technical Advisory Committee and the International Board of Counselors
of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, was vice chairman
of the U.S. National Research Council’s Board on Radioactive
Waste Management, and currently chairs the Nuclear Advisory Committee of
the Paul Scherrer Institut.